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bybee
7 yrs ago
Audiobook. I am very much enjoying this novel, set in 1939 Hollywood. One of the subplots is the making of Gone with the Wind. Carole Lombard and Clark Gable are characters! Luscious silver screen gossip. I could eat thi…
bybee
13 yrs ago
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I just finished a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton called The Custom of the Country. Excellent book. If you're a Wharton fan, you'll love it. If you're not a Wharton fan, this will make you a fan!
Based on the Book: Books to Movies
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What WOULD you like to be made into a movie....
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David Liss novels
bybee
13 yrs ago
Especially A Conspiracy of Paper and A Spectacle of Corruption. Boxer-turned-detective Benjamin Weaver is all you could wish for in a leading man -- strong, handsome and with a razor-sharp wit. He's also a bit of an ou…
Based on the Book: Books to Movies
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So, what's the worst movie based on a book you've seen?
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Endless Love
bybee
14 yrs ago
very good book, but the movie was terrible. I hope it can be remade someday, even if they have to change the character's names, etc.
bybee
16 yrs ago
That's the day that it's being published! A great classic is coming back to life!
Book Talk
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The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread by Don Robertson
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So many elements in one great novel
bybee
16 yrs ago
1. It's a coming-of-age novel
2. Although he's nine years old, Morris Bird III grapples with moral questions
3. There's a quest
4. A chance at heroism...
5. If you like the "naturalist" school of writing, Don Roberts…
bybee
16 yrs ago
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This classic and underappreciated 1965 novel is being reissued on April 22 of this year. Morris Bird III is one of my very favorite characters in American fiction. He's right up there with Huck, Holden and Scout. The …
bybee
16 yrs ago
Beautiful writing, good characterization.
bybee
16 yrs ago
I read My Sister's Keeper, didn't like it and have run right out and avoided her other novels.
Book Talk
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Disliked Atonement It was not that interesting.
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Re: Disliked Atonement It was not that interesting.
bybee
16 yrs ago
I liked the book but not the movie. It looked gorgeous, but that's about it.
bybee
16 yrs ago
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That's 2 hours of my life I'll never get back again. And it's put me off Coelho for good.
bybee
17 yrs ago
I'll have to try this phrase on my son just to see how he reacts! I wonder if his head will start rotating...?
bybee
17 yrs ago
Richard Yates' novels have the men calling their significant others "baby" all the time. Alllll the time. In many of his novels. In one novel, The Easter Parade, I think, the main female character uses the word. It s…
bybee
17 yrs ago
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Often, that just makes it all the more attractive to a young reader. hahaha
bybee
17 yrs ago
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...but when I was reading Shirley by Charlotte Bronte recently, there was a long boring section where one of Shirley's old school essays was printed verbatim. It went on for pages. I felt it was reader abuse. So after…
bybee
17 yrs ago
Of Mice And Men
The Pearl
The Grapes Of Wrath
The Moon Is Down
East Of Eden
Tortilla Flat
The Winter Of Our Discontent
East Of Eden is my favorite, no contest.
I'm also interested in reading "Sea Of Cortez",…
bybee
17 yrs ago
...and had to quit because I had a cold and was having those same icky symptoms that King describes so convincingly.
bybee
17 yrs ago
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the famous Civil War prison. At first I griped because there are no quotation marks, but I'm OK with it now.
bybee
17 yrs ago
From back when* I thought I wanted to collect books. Too expensive of a hobby. I like to read too much to do that! And I'm always hungry for new reading material, so I like to share.
*before my bookcrossing days
Book Talk
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The Accidental Tourist - comments please
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William Hurt was a little too grim for the role
bybee
17 yrs ago
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He never really smiles till the very last frame of the movie. They should've gotten Tom Hanks.
Geena Davis was terrific, but not how I pictured Muriel.
Kathleen Turner...I didn't have any feeling one way or the ot…
bybee
17 yrs ago
but I haven't read all of her short stories...wish there was a collection.
bybee
17 yrs ago
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I accidentally left a book I was several chapters into in a hotel room and it wasn't there when I asked about, after an interval.
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GONE WITH THE WIND - Part one discussion thread.
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Ashley knew that Scarlett wasn't right for him
bybee
17 yrs ago
...but he couldn't help that "opposites attract" thing, and ended up leading her on despite his best intentions. No matter how bookish and geeky he was, at the end of the day, he was first and foremost, a man.
Book Talk
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Does anyone else think their book reviews are boring?
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I've been trying to discuss what I've read on my blog starting in 2007
bybee
17 yrs ago
and reading it back, it sounds like gibberish to me. Especially if I liked the book, which is too bad, because I'm trying to encourage others to read it.
If there's a formula for writing a good review, I could surely u…
